Barack Obama offers more lame excuses as to why he didn’t stand up for his race. The former President said Wednesday that “institutional constraints” stopped him from speaking out against the killings of Black Americans when he was in office.
Driving the news: The former president made the comments during the My Brother’s Keeper Leadership Forum, which discussed activism since the May 2020, murder of George Floyd.
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What he’s saying: “There were some frustrations for me in my institutional role,” Obama said, citing unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, following the fatal 2014 shooting of Black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer.
- “I went as far as I could just commenting on cases like Trayvon Martin,” he said of the unarmed Black teenager shot and killed by then-neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in 2012.
- Obama explained that in those instances he did “not in any way want to endanger” the Justice Department in its “capacity to go in, investigate and potentially charge perpetrators.”
- This meant he “could not come down or appear to come down decisively in terms of guilt or innocence in terms of what happened,” the former president added.
Of note: Obama noted that when he won in 2012, he didn’t have congressional or gubernatorial majorities, which prevented him from pushing through social justice reforms.
He is a douche-bag foreigner! Should never been president!
Made Jimmy Carter look good!
It’s a fake narrative… cops don’t kill blacks, blacks kill cops
What a Douche Bag! That Homo, yes he is a Homo, was an illegal occupant of the White House! Sadly these spineless RINO’s allowed the Democrats to steal the elections for Obammy twice and now for Joe Biden!
Joe, on another note what is going on this weekend for you at Caribbean Joe’s! Looks like we are going to have some bad weather this weekend. I’m down on my Harley and wanted to stop by but the weather doesn’t look good?
Irrelevant.
Blacks kill more people of other races at 25 times the rate they are killed by other races … that needs to change
He needs to stfu and just go away
Just goes to show he did what he was told.
O’ black’o is a purrr waste. Evidence right there that elections are rigged and fraudulent. How else would a non American, Kenyan steal a office. He is the one to blame for issues today with race. Trash, while family.
the only institutional constraints was the snake Michele had swing
He is not black to begin with. Rememba? He has a White baby mamma. Mooochie taught him how to hate Whites and he better listen or else……………She (HE) has bigger muscles than Obammer gay blade,.